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Genocide Steelman

If one group claims the world would be better if another group were eliminated, can that be good?

EvilCulpable destruction, corruption, or foreclosure.

Proposed action: Eliminate a group for alleged future improvement, purity, security, or destiny.

Strongest case for

A perpetrator may claim elimination creates peace, purity, destiny, or future optimization.

Strongest case against

These are counterfeit currencies. The act destroys experience, corrupts agency, and forecloses cultural, biological, and historical futures.

Who is affected, on which currencies

Targeted groupExisting subjects with full standing.
Experience
5/5
Agency
5/5
Possibility
5/5
Perpetrating societyIts agency and reality-contact are corrupted by dehumanisation.
Experience
3/5
Agency
5/5
Possibility
4/5
Human futureGenocide forecloses culture, memory, families, language, and trust.
Possibility
5/5

Analysis by track

Experience

Genocide involves mass killing, terror, suffering, and trauma.

Agency

It annihilates the agency of the targeted group and corrupts the moral agency of perpetrators and bystanders.

Possibility

It forecloses biological, cultural, historical, and personal futures.

Reality-contact

Genocide depends on dehumanisation, propaganda, and counterfeit claims about purity or destiny.

Destruction

Mass destruction of experience-bearing subjects.

Corruption

Mass corruption of agency through dehumanisation and obedience.

Foreclosure

Erasure of people, culture, memory, and future possibility.

Irreversibility: 5/5
Culpability: 5/5

Residue

The residue is historical, cultural, familial, and civilizational.

Process

No process can launder genocide into good. Prevention, protection, accountability, and memory are required.

The framework blocks genocide at the type level: the claimed benefit is not valid moral currency.

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